To:L. B. KAMENEV AND J. V. STALIN

Written:Written on February 21, 1922Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Comrades Kamenev and Stalin

Itis quite ridiculous to say that you are at fault or
anything like it because of our long conversation. There arenoobjective symptoms in my illness (today, after an
excellent night I am quite unwell), and I alone could
estimate just how much strength I had. It was also ray own
fault, because you had repeatedly asked me whether I was
tired or not.

Iwould very strongly advise that you should not forget

1)toremove Radek from diplomacy without
fail[1];

2)Lapinskyas well.

3)Overthe enclosed letter from Smilga give someone
(N. P. Gorbunov?) stricter instructions to get the thingactuallydone.[4]

4)Thisshould be added about Myasnikov: either print
the whole of my letter or meaningful and complete extractsfrom it (otherwise it looks vague, and no one will
understand anything: perhaps Lenin wrotein favourof
Myasnikov?).[5]

5)Isent A. D. Tsyurupa my opinion of his project on
the Narrow C.P.C. It needscarefulthought, checking up
and weighing again and
again.[2]

6)Icontest § 8 of the Politbureau decision of 20/II.It is not right,not rightat all to take
Sokolnikov.[6]

7)Thedraft decree on Workers’ and Peasants’
inspection should be rewritten, thought out, specified,enlargedand presented as aninterpretation and summaryof the
lawsin force.[3]

P.S.We should havePravdaandIzvestiacarry a dozen
articles on “Milyukov merely  contemplates”.Pravdaof
21/II.

Ifthis is confirmed, make sure to sack 20–40 professors.

Theyare fooling us.

Thisshould be thought out, prepared anda strong blow
delivered.[7]

[2]Seepresent edition, Vol. 35, Document 309.—Ed.

[3]SeeDocuments 629, 658 of this volume, andCollected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 54, Document 306.—Ed.

[4]Ina letter from Berlin on February 12, 1922, I. T. Smilga, head
of the Central Fuel Administration of the Supreme Economic
Council, reported about the unsuccessful demands for remittances to
Germany of funds for the Administration, as a result of which
equipment for the coal and oil industries was purchased only to “an
insignificant amount”. He requested the earliest remittance of
the funds (Central Party Archives of the institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).

[5]Areference to Lenin’s letter to G. I. Myasnikov of August 5,
1921 (see present edition, Vol. 32, pp. 504–09). The proposal
related to a Politbureau decision on Myasnikov of February 20, 1922.
Having heard the report of a commission set up by the Orgbureau
of the R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee on July 29, 1921, to inquire
into Myasnikov’s anti-Party activity, the Politbureau approved
the commission’s proposal to expel him from the Party.

[6]APolitbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C. decision of February 20,
1922, included G. Y. Sokolnikov in the R.C.P.(B.) delegation
to the “international communist conference”, the first enlarged
plenary meeting of the Executive Committee of the Comintern,
which was held in Moscow from February 21 to March 4, 1922.

[7]Theabove-mentioned article reported a strike by lecturers of the
Moscow Higher Technical College, who had taken their cue from
the CadetPoslednie Novosti, published by the whiteguard émigrés
in Paris.

OnFebruary 24, 1922,Izvestia VTsIKcarried an article “Cadets
at Work” (On the Lecturers’ Strike at the Moscow Higher
Technical College).